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Village Connected:The overall goal of this project is the realization of universal access to telephone service in the nearly 70,000 villages having no telephone coverage.

Ethiopia: Rural Connectivity Project

The government of Ethiopia has allocated a huge amount of resources from the national budget. As a result of the RCP more than 60 million Ethiopians will have access to telephone, Internet and television services.

Pan African E-Network Project

The network should connect all 53 countries of the African Union to provide effective communication and connectivity among these countries.

The European Union supports a broader policy to ensure the global reach of research and education networks. It includes also the launching of concrete initiatives to support developing regions in the world, in particular the Mediterranean rim, Latin America and Asia via the projects EUMEDconnect, ALICE and TEIN2, respectively.

UN Industrial Development Organisation

ICT support to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in developing countries

World Bank: Africa Regional Initiative

Regional Communications Infrastructure Program in East and Southern Africa is an investment and Technical Assistance (TA) project in support of the liberalization of telecommunication markets in Eastern and Southern African countries and the development of a modern fiber-optic backbone to connect these countries to each other and the rest of the world.

Using state-of-the-art CDMA 3G technology, CATEL plans to expand its network to rural areas in Azerbaijan, so that people across the Country can benefit from the access to ICT for development.

Microsoft: Telecentre.org

Canada’s IDRC, Microsoft Corp and the Swiss SDC announced the launch of telecentre.org, a CAN$21 million collaborative initiative that will strengthen the capacity of tens of thousands of community-based telecentres around the world.

Sentech: Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting in South Africa

Digitisation of the Television Broadcasting infrastructure will enable our systems to seamlessly carry broadcasting, data and voice content efficiently. Digital television broadcasting and, more specifically, digital terrestrial broadcasting, opens up many possibilities for providing universal access on a very broad basis.

GFUSA is working to spread the successful Village Phone model throughout the developing world with the release of its Village Phone Replication Manual. The manual, which draws from the experiences of Village Phone in both Bangladesh and Uganda, provides a blueprint for bringing affordable, accessible telecommunications service to poor, rural areas through microfinance and for creating demand on infrastructure investment.

ICT for PoorMASTEL, Indonesia

Increasing Internet and telecommunications access for people in rural areas through telecenters, as well as keeping such telecenters self-sufficient.

Community CETEBI Telecenter Model Enlace Quiché, Guatemala

This new model builds on the successful School CETEBI model that began in 2000 and has been implemented in over 30 schools in rural Guatemala.

“The sharing of information related to the implementation of WSIS outcomes is an important element of evaluation. We note with appreciation the report on the Stocktaking of WSIS-related activities, which will serve as one of the valuable tools for assisting with the follow-up, beyond the conclusion of the Tunis Phase of the Summit, as well as the “Golden Book” of initiatives launched during the Tunis phase. We encourage all WSIS stakeholders to continue to contribute information on their activities to the public WSIS stocktaking database, maintained by ITU. In this regard, we invite all countries to gather information at the national level with the involvement of all stakeholders, to contribute to the stocktaking.”

By showcasing development efforts now underway and by identifying areas where needs are the most pressing, Connect the World will create a critical mass that will generate the momentum needed to “connect the unconnected by 2015.”

The Union runs a non-remunerated internship programme for students who wish to improve their skills and gain experience working in an international environment. This programme is open to all undergraduate and graduate students from ITU's 189 Member States. Candidates are selected in response to specific needs identified within ITU departments.

Strategy and Policy Unit competition

SPU launched its first essay-writing competition under the "Young Minds in Telecoms" Programme in November 2004. The competition was open to graduate students and recent graduates in economics, political science, law, literature, telecommunications, computer science, information systems and related fields.